The thing that I love about learning new languages is that I can immediately find some fact or idiosyncracy of the language or culture that makes it more fun to play with and generally stiumlates my imagination. I did this shit all the time in Spanish class until Edgar got me all Spanishied out. Now I seem to be developing the same tendency with ( Read more... )

Bush is actually taking responsibility for fucking up with Katrina. Even I am impressed. Rove must be in overdrive trying to enact the best and most Machiavellian gamble he's ever taken. Only Rove could make the most stupidly obsinate man in the western hemisphere actually *apologize*. There's something up his sleeve for damn sure ( Read more... )

This is the most hillarious thing I have read all week ( Read more... )

So now the insurgents in Iraq are strapping bombs to dogs ( Read more... )

Because I'm procrastinating, and haven't spammed your friends page for a while :

( Big dumb survey! (yoinked from smartania.com) )

The trip served its purpose. It was good to see my grandmother and my father again before I go off into the wild blue something. My grandmother is doing significantly better than I expected. My father...well...he's still alive. It was a good trip, but used up two days of my remaining time ( Read more... )

Gegen die Wand Best movie I'll see this month ( Read more... )

I just noticed, while running around frantically doing things to prep for the parentals' return, that somewhere along the way the "J" fell off of Lazarus's front hood panel ( Read more... )

Because making one post about it now prevents me from making 30,000 posts about it three years from now.

Mark Warner for president.

Anyone who'll help him win for Vice President.

There. I'm done. Now back to sorting clothes.

Sometime during the Oxford program, eisa and I went into a little basement CD shop in the London neighbourhood of Camden Town (a-k-a the Goth District). Pretty much everything in that basement was operatic metal, and, as I recall, fairly reasonably priced for England ( Read more... )